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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Holland District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Holland website
37,490 approved · 4,543 refused · 1,375 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Feb 1989 to 6 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 10 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Land adj. 'Le-Jan' Saltney Gate Saracens Head Spalding Lincs
Received 19 Jul 1994Glenside Cottage Glenside North West Pinchbeck Spalding PE11 3NW
Received 9 Dec 2013Land at Roman Bank Saracen's Head Spalding Lincs
Received 24 May 1999116 Siltside Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4ET
Received 5 Aug 2008Apple-Jack Lodge Chapel Drove Holbeach Drove
Received 15 Nov 20073 Holbeach Road Spalding PE11 2HJ
Received 22 Dec 2025Rear of 98 St Thomas Road Spalding PE11 2YW
Received 31 Mar 2015HOLLANDS 120 DOG DROVE NORTH HOLBEACH DROVE SPALDING PE12 0SA
Received 5 Sept 20228 WASHWAY ROAD HOLBEACH SPALDING PE12 7PE
Received 2 Oct 2024Land between 28 and 34 Jarvis Gate Sutton St James Spalding Lincs PE12 0EP
Received 6 Mar 2012Land adjacent to Seven Springs (Brywood) Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate Spalding PE11 4EU
Received 27 Jul 2015Pretoria House Chesboule Lane Gosberton Risegate Spalding Lincs PE11 4EU
Received 23 Nov 2005Plot 1 Summer Lane Long Sutton Spalding Lincs PE12 9AF
Received 16 Mar 201057 Days Lane Donington
Received 27 Apr 200624 PIPWELL GATE MOULTON SEAS END SPALDING PE12 6LU
Received 7 Apr 2016Rectory Farm Rectory Road Tydd St Mary Spalding PE13 5QL
Received 19 Mar 2025AVENUE FARM HOUSE AVENUE FARM ROAD SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9QF
Received 12 Jul 2021Plot of land at Woolram Wygate Spalding Lincs
Received 3 Jul 1997Copper Beeches Main Road Gedney Drove End Spalding Lincs PE12 9PD
Received 21 Oct 2010DODFREY CONSTRUCTION WEST BANK SUTTON BRIDGE SPALDING PE12 9QH
Received 27 May 2014Stonegate Cowbit Spalding Lincs PE12 6AH
Received 9 Apr 1999Adjacent 25 The Cottage West Drove South Gedney Hill
Received 5 Dec 2005White Cross Farm Sutton St James Spalding Lincs
Received 26 Apr 199414 Haywain Drive Deeping St Nicholas Spalding PE11 3TQ
Received 27 Apr 2016Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for South Holland District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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